Arctic Scavengers is a card game – not a CCG – about scavenging for resources and battling for items in the junkyard of a post-apocalyptic world. This is the first game from a new publisher Driftwood Games.

Players each have a hand of 10 cards with which to play on various items, and they gain them with some sort of blind bidding mechanism. The rules are online at the above link.

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Memphis Commercial Appeal: Pimps Eurogames and the Memphis board game club, including Settlers of Catan, Memoir 44, Shogun, Talisman, Queen’s Necklace, Trias, Ticket to Ride, Railroad Tycoon, Axis and Allies, Bativia, and Die Macher. The reporter slips and lets it be known that he thinks they “sound dull”. (source)

Union Bulletin: Pimps Settlers of Catan by pointing out its similarities to Monopoly. Also Ticket to Ride, Camelot, Pirate’s Cove, Mystery of the Abbey, Bang!, Carcassonne, Time’s Up, and Bananagrams. (source)

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That’s a mouthful of a game name. Transformers games have come and gone since 1985, including Transformers-themed versions of standard games such as Stratego, Monopoly, and Chess.

The latest is the Revenge of the Fallen Robot Heroes board game, to be released alongside the book (by Alan Dean Foster) on May 19, the electronic game on June 23, and the movie on June 24.

Roll the die and move around the battle arena. If you land on a battle space or share a space with your opponent, you duel with cards. Loser must turn a piece of his puzzle to the “damaged” side. That’s what I know about the mechanics, so far.

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Bessemer, AL: A card game erupts into a 30 man street brawl with guns, leaving two dead (not the card players). (source)

Holt, AL: One shoots another over a disputed $100 in a dice game. (source)

Pattaya, Thailand: 13 gamblers playing Hi Lo (dice game) were arrested when a neighbor complined that they were making too much noise. (source)

Sumter, SC: Agents search man’s house for child pornography and find it. They also find him operating a gambling house. One of the players arrested claims that they were just a bunch of friends playing cards, not gamblers, and that they knew nothing about the child porn. (source)

New Orleans, LA: Woman slashes a man in the face at a card game. No reason given, but she has a prior, also for stabbing someone. (source)

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